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With the State Election fast approaching, the Boston Election Department offers the following tips to help ease the process for both voters and poll workers alike. Voters with any questions or...
Historians, scholars, friends groups, and open space advocates are among these who now have a window into the past as the records of the Boston Parks Commission have been digitized and put online...
The Mayor's Office of Arts + Culture will feature an exhibition of international labor movement posters from Stephen Lewis’ collection ( https://www.facebook.com/Lewisposters) in the Mayor’s...
At the request of East Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina and neighborhood residents, the Boston Transportation Department is expanding the East Boston Resident Parking Program to include Horace...
Yesterday, Mayor Martin J. Walsh signed an Executive Order establishing payment certification requirements for vendors with city contracts. The measure seeks to prevent wage theft, which is the...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the City of Boston’s Office of Food Initiatives announced today the receipt of a $25,000 planning grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Local Food...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh will recognize National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week the week of October 20th. The Mayor’s Office of Fair Housing and Equity, the Boston Public Health Commission, the...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced that the Public Works Department (PWD) has retrofitted 38,838 of its 64,000 streetlights to Light-emitting Diode (LED) technology, which use less energy, last...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh today officially reopened Boston Centers for Youth and Families’ (BCYF) Draper Pool in West Roxbury. The $3.5 million dollar renovation took just over a year to complete and was...
Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Vice Chair of the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Cities of Opportunity Task Force, launched a wide-ranging effort to address poverty and income inequality in Boston with the...
Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the release of the draft 2014 Climate Action Plan for public comment. The City also released the latest municipal greenhouse gas emissions report for fiscal year...
"The City and our partners at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health were in constant contact today as news of an Ebola scare began to break. Today's...
October is the month for great Boston youth soccer as the 2014 Mayor’s Cup Soccer Tournament takes place this weekend. Sponsored by Comcast, teams throughout Boston participate in this citywide...
Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the appointment of 24 members to the “Taxi Advisory Committee” to examine policy and regulatory frameworks to support the taxi industry throughout the City of...
The exhibition Purloined Letters: Literary Correspondence and its Unintended Recipients opens in the Special Collections Lobby at the Central Library in Copley Square on Wednesday, October 15...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh today released “Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030,” the administration’s housing plan. The plan, which aims to create housing across demographics and neighborhoods, outlines...
Boston’s Fall Leaf collection will begin on Monday, October 13, and take place through Saturday, November 29. Boston Public Works Department (PWD) will collect and compost residents’ leaves and yard...
Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced a call for applications to fill an open position on the Boston School Committee. The School Committee Nominating Panel is accepting applications to fill the...
Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that the City of Boston has helped secure $3.8 million in resources towards housing and preventing homelessness for veterans. The resources come in the form of a...
Boston’s Board of Election Commissioners reminds all voters that the last day to register to vote, change one’s voting address, or party affiliation for the November 4 state election is OCTOBER 15...
As renovations continue at Boston Public Library’s Copley Square location, library users and other interested members of the public are invited to a roundtable meeting for an update on the project and...
"From the start of this process, I have been up front about my serious concerns related to the Everett parcel. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission and their investigatory body clearly failed the...
Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that the East Boston Branch of the Boston Public Library earned LEED Gold certification. Established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the City of Boston announce that First Night Boston 2015, the annual New Year’s Eve festival celebration, will take place December 31, 2014, throughout downtown Boston...
Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the formation of a “Neighborhood Innovation District Committee” to expand innovation and entrepreneurship in the City of Boston. The Neighborhood Innovation...
On Saturday, September 27, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) will host “Let’s Get Ready!” a city-wide multi-agency community fair to educate and encourage residents on what protective...
Today, the Boston Transportation Department (BTD) announced that the Dudley Square Municipal Parking Lot at #30 Ruggles Street re-opened on Tuesday, September 16. The public parking lot supports the...
Today Mayor Walsh announced the City of Boston’s partnership with a Boston tech company to encourage parking ticket recipients to pay their fines using their smart phones. The new customer service...
Today Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the appointment of Julie Burros as Boston’s first Chief of Arts and Culture in more than 20 years, following a national search. Burros will be tasked with...
Boston Public Library locations will host author talks and a range of lectures during the month of October. Highlights include: As part of an author panel, Florence Ladd explores the expatriate...
